"If we take them up it will have to be quick, but there's a big risk. Anyone else have an opinion?"
"I have said what I think. But it is not my call."
Lets leave em here for now, we have spider-bait to hunt before he become dinner. If these things haven't hatched near days end we take em up. Cook a few over the fire, make some wooden cages for the rest. Sound like a plan?
"Yeah, sounds like a plan." But not a particularly good one.
Ja!
The dwarf goes back to leading the way down the tunnel.
"You do realize that if they hatch we now have 50 of these things to deal with right?" Lyla says studying the eggs to see if she can determine how close they are to hatching.
"You do realize that if they hatch we now have 50 of these things to deal with right?" Lyla says studying the eggs to see if she can determine how close they are to hatching.
Hal moved carefully across the broken ground, checked the door carefully and and pulled the lever that sealed it.
This was obviously the back side of some sort of secret passage. Not so secret from this direction.
The door began to push open fast, like there was weight pushing against it front he other side. Hal's quick reflexes gave him a moment's notice before it would crash open.
Hal grabbed the door to slow it and carefully guided it open. Nobody was prepared for the lashing purple tendrils that came around the edge of the door and struck at the dwarf.
The tendril slapped against his chest leaving a smear of pale purple spoors across his armor.
As Hal jumped back in surprise, the door slammed the rest of the way open revealing a dwarf-sized purple mushroom with a broad canopy. Four writhing tendrils reached from beneath the hood towards Hal.
This man sized mushroom is in fact a violet fungus, a subterranean creature that can move slowly about on a mass of small feelers. It is a animate plant, and is mindless, though it does respond to base desires, such as hunger, or recognition of threats like fire.
As well as being partially mobile, violet fungi also have poisonous tentacles that can incapacitate the unwary dungeoneer.
Bqllrs, the dwarf swears in Norse.
This thing is a killer!!! RUN!! Ware its tentacles!
Acrobatics to jump back without triggering an AoO
He double moves away
There's not a lot more to know. It's a plant and thus has plant immunities. It doesn't have any particular weaknesses. It's single minded and feeds on rotten flesh. Its toxin makes flesh rot extremely quickly. Survivors of encounters with it are fairly easy to spot by the horrible scars they carry.
They are slow and single minded, so often the best way of getting rid of them is to used ranged weapons or magic.
Its slow - but its got a long reach. Hit it from a distance!.
An exact image of Torgan appeared next to him.
"Err.. next time there is a door in front of us, let me go first, I guess I should have said I can look beyond without opening them. But it takes time..." Torgan said as he retreated.
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Hal tried to get clear. He moved back carefully traversing the broken ground, but he couldn't make it far. The tight quarters made it impossible for him to get past his allies.
Seeing the dwarf's distress, Torgan moved forward to shield him from the weird mushroom-creature.
The fungus lashed out with it's tendrils, raking at Torgan.
The tendrils left stripes of spores behind that began eating away at Torgan's flesh. The tiny spores even ate away at cloth and leather, boring through, leaving black and purple rot in their wake. Skin and muscle peeled back and collapsed in upon itself, bubbling and crusting. The pain was agonizing.
Guddammit! We have to get away from this thing - it has a terrible reach but it moves slowly
"Let us halt it's progress then."
Dorian summons forth an elemental once more, but this time the creature that comes from the portal looks more like a mudman.
The heap of animate muck burrows into the ground somewhat for cover and slams the poisonous plant-creature.
(DC14 fortitude against 10 minute entanglement),
Nar follows behind his master. Providing cover and readying to strike any foe in range.
Everyone out of this tunnel! We have better chances fighting it in the open. Noxious clouds notwithstanding.
"He's right! In that narrow tunnel it's a death trap!" Lyla says with urgency.
Dorian's trusty elemental friend solidified out of the damp earth that had been the Ankheg's den. It came up swinging and landed a solid hit on the odd mushroom creature. It released a poof os spoors, but otherwise ignored the little mudman. It seemed that whatever the elemental was made of, the mushroom didn't consider it edible.
Torgan covered the retreat of the group. Making sure the mushroom is not following. Hopefullly the elemental will slow it down. he thought.
"So how far you wanna run now? I don't know if you consider the flying-monster room to be "out in the open", but somebody please tell me what you wanna do once we get there."
The mushroom ignored the mudman. Whatever it was made of, it wasn't the flesh the purple plant craved. Instead it reached out with it's tendrils to crab the rough wall and jumped off the small embankment, right over the elemental's head.
It's tendrils came around the corner blindly, flailing at Travigan.
The lashing tendril slapped against the wall just behind Travigan, missing him but getting close enough to keep him worried.
(DC14 fortitude against 10 minute entanglement),
20 square foot I consider open. This is even better. Gather in the room, ready ranged attacks. Draw it out and group-attack. Stay out of it's range. And let us see how my elemental fares in halting and hurting.
The elemental burrows below the plant creature (preventing AoO due to cover) and pops up in front of it, blocking it's path and smashing a heavy mucky arm into and onto the Violet Fungus.
(DC14 fortitude against 10 minute entanglement, if already entangled, helpless instead),
Lyla moves back into the room, hoping to get a good view of the creature when it comes into the open, understanding that her ability to garner some knowledge of it may mean their survival.
Torgan moved back to the room, all the while staying between the mushroom thing and the rest of the group (not counting the elemental).
Once there he fastened the great axe to his back and started to ready his heavy crossbow.
"So Dorian, you reckon the thing will get past your elemental buddy?"